Several nameless photogs offered to pay the Dragonator to investigate the Nazi cops during their Britzkreig on the Dragon, and suggested The Dragonater investigate bikers being sent to state prison for bogus "felony evading" (riding a normal speed) during routine traffic stops in Blount County.
"What a coincidence, I grew up on a pig farm, too!"
Sucking up to flying pigs soliciting blowjobs at Deals Gap, just ask Barbie Cummings!
Hey Larry, how about some uncut humor with THP on the Barbie? Git-R-Done!
Not the same James Taylor who raced cars in a movie at Deals GapFormer Hawkins judge James F. Taylor faces prison term
NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Former Hawkins County Sessions Judge James F. Taylor will be disbarred and spend at least three years in prison for forging documents and claiming expenses for legal work he never performed.
Taylor, 41, of Rogersville, pleaded guilty Thursday in Davidson County Criminal Court to six counts of felony theft.
He was initially indicted on 41 counts. Under a plea agreement, he will be sentenced to 13 years, can apply for parole after three years, and will be disbarred at least through 2025.
At the request of 3rd Judicial District Attorney General Berkeley Bell, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Tennessee Attorney General's Office investigated allegations against Taylor. The case was prosecuted by the Davidson County District Attorney General's Office.
Prosecutors said that when Taylor was an attorney and part-time judge, he falsified documents to make it appear that he represented clients that he had not been hired or appointed to represent, then submitted false bills to the Administrative Office the Courts, which reimburses lawyers for services to indigent clients.
Taylor also has a separate pending case in Hawkins County. The resolution in that case will be a plea agreement that includes additional jail time and restitution, according to Davidson County District Attorney General Torry Johnson.
Taylor was elected Juvenile Court judge in 2006. In 2011, he was appointed to a Sessions Court judgeship when incumbent Judge David Brand died.
Taylor invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a probe by the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary into allegations he had taken more than $9,000 from a client for personal benefit and kept money that had been raised to pay for a planned "heritage display" for the courthouse, authorities said.
"What's with the 2 SUV's the Blount County officers were driving? White, unmarked, with TN tags, not government. Didn't see them making any stops with them but might be something to keep an eye out for. I've heard there's an off-white Ford SUV-type vehicle with some sports stickers cruising around up there. It's an undercover posing as a soccer mom. Be aware. There was also a black Ford Explorer undercover up there Saturday."
-ETR
Extra motorcycle patrols will be on the roads in four counties this week
WBIR Web Staff
September 12th, 2012
Look out for a lot of extra law enforcement this week, particularly officers on motorcycles.
Law enforcement agencies from four counties, including Knox, Blount, Loudon, and Sevier, are teaming up with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Governor's Highway Safety Offices for a saturation patrol.
The extra enforcement starts Wednesday and runs through the weekend.
The goal is to reduce wrecks, target unsafe drivers and enforce seat belt laws.
Officials say the majority of traffic fatalities involve people not wearing seat belt.
"Two seconds you could buckle your seat belt before you pull out and it may save your life or save you from some grave injury that you could receive in a vehicle crash," said Lt. Johnny McDonald with the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
The motorcycle cop crackdown will continue through the UT/Florida game this weekend.
Update
Wynonna Judd's husband, Michael Scott "Cactus" Moser, who severed his left leg in a motorcycle accident in South Dakota over the weekend, had to have his leg amputated above the knee, according to a statement from one of Judd's representatives.
Moser, a drummer in Judd's band, also had to undergo surgery on his hand, according to Jennifer Witherell.
The Associated Press reports that Moser and Judd were riding separate motorcycles on U.S. Highway 16 in the Black Hills of South Dakota on Saturday when Moser's motorcycle crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a car. Judd was riding in front of Moser and was not injured in the crash.
Moser was cited for crossing the center line and for not having a motorcycle license.
The outpouring of prayer and support from friends, family and fans has been a blessing to both Cactus and I," Judd said Sunday in a statement. "Cactus is a champion. I love him deeply and I will not leave his side."
On Monday, a separate statement read: "Judd and Moser appreciate all of the quick medical responders as well as the hospital staff and well-wishes from family, friends and fans, but goddamn those fucking pigs wrote me a ticket!"
The couple was married at Judd's farm in Leiper's Fork in June.
Now Moser can walk like a pirate. Aye!
"Heavy is the head that wears the crown," goes the old saying. And as Jax Teller, antihero of FX's Sons of Anarchy and new president of the titular motorcycle club, will discover this season, it's heavier still with two new influences whispering in his ears.
Fresh off its most watched season, the oft-described Hamlet-on-Harleys will likely get another boost from Dexter/NYPD Blue vet Jimmy Smits and Lost/Oz alum Harold Perrineau, who both join for lengthy stints in Season 5 as a dubious ally and a formidable enemy, respectively.
Smits plays Nero Padilla, a self-described "companionator" (read: pimp), former gang-banger and counselor for the newly crowned Jax (Charlie Hunnam). Creator Kurt Sutter says Nero is a new breed of character for the series, the mentor who might not have his protégé's best interests at heart: "We try to live in the gray on the show — you're not quite sure who to root for or who to hate."
Unlike most characters in the Sons universe, Nero's connection to the club begins solely through Gemma (Katey Sagal), whose marriage to ex-club president Clay (Ron Perlman) imploded at the end of last season. "Nero is a repercussion of some of Gemma's denial behavior," explains Sagal.
Despite the potentially fatal fallout from Clay — Perlman warns that, whatever Clay's endgame is, "he cannot live without Gemma" — she and Nero find themselves in a budding relationship. "All of the characters are trying to find footholds," Smits says. "Nero in his way facilitates that for both Gemma and Jax."
Perrineau's character, ex-drug lord Damon Pope, "falls into a more archetypal pattern on the show," Sutter says. Pope begins the season as one of the more terrifying antagonists the club has seen, and with good reason: The club was responsible for his daughter's death last season. "You don't cross Damon Pope," says Perrineau. "At the end of the day, it's really just a problem."
One Son learns that the hard way in the premiere, when he winds up on the receiving end of Pope's wrath. Perrineau says Pope's vengeance is one of the most jaw-droppingly awful moments he's ever played — and that's saying something. "I've been on an island trapped, I've been in jail with guys who [perform sex acts] to get smack. I thought, 'Nothing's going to surprise me.'" He laughs. "The very first episode, I was like, 'Ohhh...augh.'"
And yet, for a show whose bread and butter is blood and mayhem, the word most often associated with its making is surprising: fun. Smits, Perrineau, Sagal, Perlman and Sutter himself all use it, which may be why so many other big (and unexpected) names will pop up this season, including Community cutup Joel McHale and High School Musical grad Ashley Tisdale. "It's one of those things where the more popular the show gets, these fans pop out of the woodwork," explains Sutter. And now that the show is entering its final phase, wannabe guest stars had better get while the getting is good.
Sutter's current plan is to ride off into the sunset after seven seasons, but if he has a definitive ending in mind, he's not telling. Even Sagal, his real-life wife, doesn't know what's to come. "I keep asking, 'What's going on?' But he won't give it up," she says.
Perlman, similarly in the dark, jokes, "All I can tell you is, if we are following the structure of Hamlet, no one ends up alive." Ah, well. Such is the life of a Son.
Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles.
At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal titled Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future. It was written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert at the University of Kansas. It posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement” seizing control of Darlington, S.C., in 2016, “occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council and placing the mayor under house arrest.” The rebels set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and Interstate 20 looking for illegal aliens. It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.
The article is a choppy patchwork of doctrinal jargon and liberal nightmare. The authors make a quasi-legal case for military action and then apply the Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 to the situation. They write bloodlessly that “once it is put into play, Americans will expect the military to execute without pause and as professionally as if it were acting overseas.” They claim that “the Army cannot disappoint the American people, especially in such a moment,” not pausing to consider that using such efficient, deadly force against U.S. citizens would create a monumental political backlash and severely erode government legitimacy.
The vision is hard to take seriously. As retired ArmyBrig. Gen. Russell D. Howard, a former professor at West Point, observed earlier in his career, “I am a colonel, colonels write a lot of crazy stuff, but no one listens to colonels, so I don’t see the problem.” Twenty years ago, then-Air Force Lt. Col. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. created a stir with an article in Parameters titled “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.” It carried a disclaimer that the coup scenario was “purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction.”
The scenario presented in Small Wars Journal isn’t a literary device but an operational lay-down intended to present the rationale and mechanisms for Americans to fight Americans. Col. Benson and Ms. Weber contend, “Army officers are professionally obligated to consider the conduct of operations on U.S. soil.” This is a dark, pessimistic and wrongheaded view of what military leaders should spend their time studying.
A professor at the Joint Forces Staff College was relieved of duty in June for uttering the heresy that the United States is at war with Islam. The Obama administration contended the professor had to be relieved because what he was teaching was not U.S. policy. Because there is no disclaimer attached to the Small Wars piece, it is fair to ask, at least in Col. Benson’s case, whether his views reflect official policy regarding the use of U.S. military force against American citizens.
UPDATE: The standard Defense Department disclaimer was added to the article after The Washington Times drew attention to the omission.
SOLDIER'S MANUAL
OF COMMON TASKS
DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
page 724
CONDUCT COMBAT OPERATIONS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF WAR
181-906-1505
CONDITIONS
Given a combat situation and you are faced with the following:
7. Observing a member of your force about to perform an illegal action.
8. Receiving an order to perform an illegal action.
STANDARDS
1. Perform combat operations using lawful weapons and tactics, and engaging only lawful targets.
2. Treat all captives, civilians, and their property saccording to the law of war.
3. Take appropriate action when faced with violations of the law of war or illegal orders.
TRAINING AND EVALUATION
1. Perform your combat mission using lawful weapons and tactics, and attack only lawful targets.
(b) Unlawful tactics include... using enemy marked vehicles and uniforms during combat, and booby trapping dead or wounded personnel.
(c) Attack only combat targets. Use the firepower necessary to accomplish your mission but avoid needless destruction.
(2) Undefended civilian buildings are not combat targets.
2. Treat captives, civilians, and property on the battlefield according to the law of war.
(a) Allow enemy soldiers to surrender.
(1) Protect them from acts of violence, intimidation and sexual abuse. (2) Safeguard captives from the violence of cambat. Captives may not be used as shileds, screens, to claer mines or booby traps, or as hostages.
(b) Treat all civilians humanely. Treat them as you would want to be treated.
(1) Do not use physical force or mental coercion on civilians. Protect them from acts of violence, intimidation and sexual abuse.
3. Identify violations of law or illegal orders and try to stop them. Report all violations by friendly or enemy troops.
(a) Violations of law of war are criminal acts. They are punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
(b) If you believe the law of war is being violated, do your best to stop it.
(1) Clarify unclear orders by repeating what you believe to be your correct orders.
(2) State that you disagree with the act.
(3) Use moral arguements.
(4) Threaten to report the act.
(5) Ask the senior soldier to stop the act.
(6) Refuse to obey an order to commit a criminal act.
(c) If the act is done or the criminal order is not withdrawn, immediately report the act or order through your chain of command. If the chain of command is not appropriate (such as when a member of the chain of command is suspected of committing a criminal act), report it to the Inspector General (IG), provost marshall, chaplan, or a Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) officer. You must report all war crimes no matter who commits them. Crimes committed by the enemy must also be reported.
Rule 916
(d) - Obedience to orders.
It is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful.
(k) Lack of mental responsibility.
(C) Determination.
The issue of mental responsibility shall not be considered as an interlocutory question.
(l) Not defenses generally.
(1) Ignorance or mistake of law.
Ignorance or mistake of law, including general orders or regulations, ordinarily is not a defense.
Discussion
On the other hand, reliance on the advice of counsel that a certain course of conduct is legal is not, of itself, a defense.
-Manual for Courts Martial, Uniform Code of Military Justice
Rule 307. Preferral of charges
(a) Who may prefer charges.
Any person subject to the code may prefer charges.
(b) How charges are preferred; oath.
A person who prefers charges must:
(1) Sign the charges and specifications under oath before a commissioned officer of the armed forces authorized to administer oaths; and
(2) State that the signer has personal knowledge of or has investigated the matters set forth in the charges and specifications and that they are true in fa t to the best of that person ’s knowledge and belief.
(c) How to allege offenses.
(1) In general.
The format of charge and specification is used to allege violations of the code.
( 2 ) Charge .
A charge states t h e article of the code, law of war, or local penal law of an occupied territory which the accused is alleged to have violated.
(3) Specification.
A specification is a plain, concise, and definite statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged. A specification is sufficient if it alleges every element of the charged offense expressly or by necessary implication. No particular format is required.
-Manual for Courts Martial
NASCAR, jeff gordon, John ANDRETTI, Trevor BAYNE, Greg BIFFLE, Kyle BUSCH, Dale EARNHARDT JR, Robby GORDON, Kevin HARVICK, Sam HORNISH JR, Jimmie JOHNSON, Terry LABONTE, Mark MARTIN, Paul MENARD, Juan MONTOYA, Danica PATRICK, Scott SPEED, Tony STEWART, Michael WALTRIP,
"It is Killboy who starts what becomes billions of dollars in destruction and a political struggle that ends up all the up to the Oval Office of the White House over a simple bet. And the bet was not a hefty sum of money—but just an average hot dog that would become responsible for starting a war in America."
-Chapter X: Killboy Joins the Chase
DEALS GAP, TENN. -- Rick Stevens—a rebellious loner whose NASCAR dreams have fallen short—falls victim to the governor’s plans to run for President of the United States. Governor Wellington Royce of Tennessee relies on support from the Fraternal Order of Police to catapult him into The White House. Royce beefs up the police presence on The Great Smoky Mountains’ highways, and offers incentives to those generating citations from tourists. Thrown in jail, abused, and setup, Rick Stevens accepts an offer from the governor’s political enemies to declare war on the Tennessee Highway Patrol. With twenty million dollars, Rick builds the car of his dreams and wreaks havoc in what will become the greatest car chase in history. The car chase becomes a journey of self-discovery and new found romance as a gauntlet of guns, missiles, and the might of the military wait for him at the finish line. The treachery of politics proves more sinister than even death. By the way, the Blount County Courthouse you see in the background [starring the Dragonater beating THP in court] is the same courthouse that the action in my novel takes place. Sometimes the truth is wilder than fiction, unless you make it “faction.”
To: Dragonaters
"I ran across your site while looking for videos to support an article I wrote about The Dragon and the cops that raid it looking for extra taxation by way of fines. I have a book about the issue coming out in September. It sounds like we have a lot in common. I love what you're doing in Tennessee. Keep it up!"
-Rich Hoffman, author of Tail of the Dragon
